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Design Rights: Functionality and Scope of Protection addresses the issue of functionality in the context of design rights. Protection of industrial and other designs has developed as a distinct and important area of intellectual property law. This book, while providing a solid foundation of the law regarding the protection and enforcement of design rights, focuses on the ever-present, and always contentious, issue of functionality in the context of design rights. While there is considerable harmonization on the fundamental principle that design rights regard aesthetic appearance and not underlying technical function, courts and legislatures the world over have long struggled with determining whether to permit, and how to interpret the scope of, design rights directed at products whose appearance may, partially or completely, be the result of functional consideration.

This detailed country-by-country analysis provides clarity, insight, and guidance on the legal issues and practical implications of functionality in twenty-seven key jurisdictions worldwide. This book was developed within the framework of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), a non-affiliated, non-profit organization dedicated to improving and promoting the protection of intellectual property at both national and international levels.

What’s in this book:

The authors of the country chapters have been carefully selected based on their extensive experience and in-depth knowledge about design protection in their respective jurisdictions. Each chapter considers such issues and topics as the following:

tests or approaches applied to determine whether a design right is ineligible for protection based on functionality grounds, including related policy considerations;

strategies employed to mount, and fend off, challenges to design rights based on functionality;

determination of a design right’s scope of protection, including the impact of any visual elements of the overall design having appearances that are non-novel and/or functional;

tests or approaches applied to determine whether a visual element of a design right is excluded from the overall scope of protection based on functionality grounds, including related policy considerations; and

examples of how visual elements of a design right whose appearance is driven by the function are treated in infringement and validity contexts.

Each chapter includes case law examples, hypothetical fact patterns, and graphic images of designs to bring issues to life. An introductory chapter covers the basic tenets of design rights, terminology, and discussion of design rights in relation to other areas of intellectual property.

How this will help you:

As a comparative law study and a collection of contributions from around the world on an important and controversial field, this book proves to be of tremendous practical interest for the industry involved, as well as for the public. Applicants for design protection, parties involved in or contemplating enforcement proceedings, and interested legal practitioners will benefit greatly from its thorough comparative analysis and guidance. It is also exceptionally valuable as a comprehensive resource for academics and researchers interested in the international harmonization of intellectual property law.

Last Updated

09/05/2017

Update Frequency

Annually

Product Line

Kluwer Law International

ISBN

9789041188649

SKU

10058990-0001

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Foreword

Hao Ma, President of AIPPI

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Christopher V. Carani

United States

Christopher V. Carani/Dunstan H. Barnes, Ph.D.

European Union

Johan Løje

Argentina

Iván Poli, Ph.D.

Australia

Wayne Slater/Robert Wulff

Benelux

Fernand de Visscher/Anne Marie Verschuur

Brazil

Lucas Martins Gaiarsa/Saulo Calazans

Canada

Curtis B. Behmann/Geoffrey de Kleine

China

Dr. Paolo Beconcini

Denmark

Johan Løje

Finland

Markus Mattila/Irmeli Nokkanen

France

Camille Draber-Lemaitre/Patrice de Candé/Frédéric Glaize

Germany

Jens Künzel

India

Manish Saurastri/Hemant Thadhani

Israel

Sa’ar Alon/David Gilat

Italy

Mario Franzosi/Cristiano Bacchini

Japan

Tomohiro Nakamura

Mexico

Octavio Espejo

Peru

Ana B. Martell

Poland

Dr. Lavinia Brancusi/Klaudia Blach-Morysin´ska

Republicof Korea

Dr. Jihoon Kim/Buyong Jeong

Russia

Alexander Vasilets

SouthAfrica

Wessel van Wyk/Kimberley Rose Smith

Spain

Ruth Almaraz/Nèstor Corominas

Sweden

Mattias Malmstedt/Joakim Adamsson

Switzerland

Dr. Reinhard Oertli/Peter Schramm

Turkey

Aysu Dericiog¿lu Egemen/Irmak Yalçiner

United Kingdom

Sara Ashby/Michael Browne/Joanne Gibbs

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